Posted on 03/23/2018 5:27:28 AM PDT by grundle
“Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.”
Except that now Han Solo isn’t sporting his famous blaster in newly released character shot posters. The revamped posters have removed all of the weapons from the characters, leaving them to look a little… odd.
Clearly something is missing from the designs. They look very off.
Here’s Han Solo and friends with their weapons…
And without…
According to Movie Web, the change comes both after controversy surrounding alleged plagiarism by the freelance artist and controversy about gun control in the aftermath of the Parkland, Florida school shooting.
"Alden Ehrenreich’s young Han Solo is seen in his reddish poster that shows the character in the same stance as the previous poster, but instead of aiming his iconic blaster, his right arm has been Photoshopped to be placed at his side."
"It looks a bit clumsy, and so do the rest of the posters that were doctored, especially when compared to the originals. The first Solo posters with the blasters intact made their debut before the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in the United States. But the altered ones came after. Though these are international posters, the news of the Florida shooting became a worldwide incident."
"It’s hard to tell if Disney is trying to appease both sides of the gun debate by having both versions of the now altered poster available, which should make everyone happy and not so happy at the same time. It pleases everyone and no one all at once, and is sending some mixed signals."
Disney or Lucasfilm has not confirmed why the change was made, and tying it to gun violence is pure speculation.
Meanwhile, Pirates of the Caribbean re-opened earlier this week featuring a gun-toting redhead peddling rum. The change was reportedly made to avoid association with human trafficking.
Poptarts?
Exactly what I was thinking. Disney knows that if it didn’t have non-stop gun fights and battles in the movie, it would bomb. So they virtue-signal with the poster and rake in the $$$ with a movie about gun fights.
Political correctness in all it’s glory.
Now they need to go to the next step, remove all guns from all their movies.
Lol!
The loop on the left makes the trooper in the center appear to be blown backward when he fires!
The poses of those two guys make them look like idiots without the guns in their hands.
Is the movie even available on video in its original form?
Did they remove them from the movie?
You mean like when Speilberg had all the police officers’ guns airbrushed out of ET?
And Bargain Basement Billy Dee looks like he just caught a whiff of that dumble jiff.
An earlier draft of the poster probably had Chewbacca with his bow-caster. They probably dropped the pew-pews because of the school shootings.
They should just pull the whole poster. The name ‘Han Solo’ is the only thing carrying it.
The look on the poster went from “Don’t make me shoot you!” to “MOMMY?”
Bad guy in movie: “Muhuhuhwaahahaaa - You can’t shoot me Solo, I’m in a safe space and you’re in a gun free zone!”
How many billions of guns have been fired in Hollywood produced movie and TV shows over the years.
I always laugh when I hear them lecture _us_ about guns.
Which would have been useless, as they were wearing spacesuits.
“In fact, you can’t even say mean things about me tight now! Safe space! Safe Space! Now, where did I put my crayons?..”
I think they were wearing “Men in Black” suits.
Are they going to stop making movies that involve gun violence? Didn’t think so. More hypocracy.
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